a wedding, some fish and donuts...

my cousin jason was getting married... so we made a trip to utah for the special occasion...

first stop... a sinclair gasoline dinosaur in st. george...

[august 15th 2011]

first fish of the trip...

fishy faces with grandpa clark at the temple...

me and my girl ellis...

my boys... 

with grandma clark...

we are a happy family...

the lovers...

a little background... they met in a college class... he didnt have his book... she did... they shared...  

then...

he found out she worked at beyond glaze donut shop... he wanted her number... he doesnt like sweet things... including donuts... but he still wanted her number... he would go to beyond glaze and buy boxes of donuts at least once a week just so he could see her more than just class time... she finally wrote her number on one of the boxes of donuts... 

then...

they got married...

and these are the CRAZY yummy donuts that we had to try since we heard their story...

our two favorites ::

a maple bacon donut... 

i know... everyone thinks... ewwww... gross.... but it was seriously so so so good... close your eyes and now think of eating a yummy pancake... with maple syrup and delish bacon all at once... ok... now that is what this donut tastes like... its a breakfast donut and the p b & j can be for lunch... 

p b & j donut...

yum!

sleeping in great grandma glo's arms

ending the night by leaving the reception in the state troopers police car... jones was a trouble maker... or my uncle is a state trooper... which one do you think is true??

[august 16th 2011]

the next morning we went to visit my grandpa and grandma mikesell... more greats for my kiddos...

crazy to think about that there are four generations right there...

(my mom was taking the picture... )

then we went up to park city for the afternoon...

jones with gramps...

going up the ski lift... jones was not at all sure about this... after we got off and hiked over to where the alpine slide started i put our car on the track and turned around to get him, to find that he was running back up the hill... he didnt want to go and wanted to ride the lift back down the mountain...

but by the end of the ride down the slide... he was ready to go again...

then he climbed another mountain...

and then a spiders web...

thanks to my aunt and uncle who let us come and hang out for the afternoon at their awesome condo in park city... we had fun swimming and going to dinner!!

[august 17th 2011]

after a fun morning (no pictures {frown}) of hanging out with my aunt, cousin and their kids we drove a few hours south to go to the cabin...

[august 18th 2011]

both jones and ellis loved the 4-wheelers...

she fell asleep in seconds as we drove to find the perfect fishing spot...

jones...

fishy lips...

fishy lips close-up

happy girl...

happy boy that caught a fish with dad and gramps...

then... later that night we went to a rodeo...

jones loved the cowboy hat that gramps and glo had for him to use...

last fish of the trip... can you spot the fish out of water???

brent's first rodeo, jones' first rodeo, ellis' first rodeo...

it was fun!

seeing this (from where we were sitting) made me feel like we were on a set from a movie...

[august 19th 2011]

loved our whole trip...

loved seeing family...

drove home...

[august 20th 2011]